History & Philosophy
mobi |eng | 2012-10-29 | Author:George E. Vaillant
* The total N in Table 6.2 is 159 rather than the 242 in Table 6.1 due to the exclusion of the 73 so-so marriages, the 7 never married, and ...
( Category:
Aging
December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Michael S. Gazzaniga [Gazzaniga, Michael S.]
MORE FUNDING, MORE RESEARCH, MORE KNOWLEDGE Meanwhile, many visiting researchers were making a mess of the scientific literature on split-brain patients.7 The researchers seemed not to understand how cross-cueing tricks, ...
( Category:
Behavioral Sciences
December 2,2017 )
A Mind For Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra) by Barbara Oakley
mobi, azw3 |eng | 2014-07-30 | Author:Barbara Oakley
If you don’t make a point of repeating what you want to remember, your “metabolic vampires” can suck away the neural pattern related to that memory before it can strengthen ...
( Category:
Memory Improvement
December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2010-06-02 | Author:Naomi Oreskes & Erik M. Conway [Oreskes, Naomi]
Meeting the “Greenhouse Effect” with the “White House Effect” Two crucial developments during the presidential campaign year of 1988 changed climate science forever. The first was the creation of the ...
( Category:
History & Philosophy
December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2012-09-10 | Author:Steven Johnson
5 Control Artist On the screen, the pixels dance: bright red dots with faint trails of green, scurrying across a black background, like fireflies set against the sky of a ...
( Category:
Sociology
December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2015-07-13 | Author:Frank Wilczek
PART 4: SUMMING UP The Census of Forces and Entities We have four fundamental forces: gravity, electromagnetism, and the strong and weak forces. All are described, theoretically, using local symmetry. ...
( Category:
Physics
December 2,2017 )
mobi, pdf |eng | 2015-07-30 | Author:Jon Elster
14 Rationality and behavior Ignoring the costs of decision making The idea of rationality has a strong normative appeal. We want to have reasons – desires and beliefs in light ...
( Category:
Philosophy
December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2015-12-07 | Author:Kara Platoni
SEVEN Pain THE NIGHT LIGHT is all dark wood and leather and red and gold flocked wallpaper; the bar’s time era seems set somewhere between “Gold Rush” and “impossible future.” ...
( Category:
Engineering
December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2012-10-31 | Author:Edward O. Wilson
Chapter 7. Altruism “The blood of martyrs is the seed of the church.” With that chilling dictum the third-century theologian Tertullian confessed the fundamental flaw of human altruism, an intimation ...
( Category:
Psychology
December 2,2017 )
mobi, pdf |eng | 2008-12-28 | Author:Ken Binmore
6.3 Richard von Mises Richard von Mises was the younger brother of Ludwig von Mises, who is still honored as a leading member of the Austrian school of economics. However, ...
( Category:
Mathematics
December 2,2017 )
mobi, pdf |eng | 2012-04-22 | Author:Stuart Firestein
Getting comfortable with ignorance is how a student becomes a scientist. How unfortunate that this transition is not available to the public at large, who are then left with the ...
( Category:
History & Philosophy
December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2007-07-16 | Author:David Quammen
After a year in Sarawak, Alfred Wallace shifted onward in the Malay Archipelago to find new hunting grounds, beyond the range of previous British travelers and collectors. He caught a ...
( Category:
Evolution
December 2,2017 )
mobi, pdf |eng | 2015-10-26 | Author:Matt Ridley
The technology of education The impact of profit-seeking education is not confined to poor countries. In Sweden, profit-making schools have been a competitive spur to state schools, raising standards and ...
( Category:
Social Sciences
December 2,2017 )
mobi, pdf |eng | 2016-02-28 | Author:Howard Wainer
Figure 9.2. A restructuring of the same data shown in Figure 9.1 making clearer what changed in the sources of government receipts between the year 2000 and 2007. I wasn’t ...
( Category:
History & Philosophy
December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2015-02-23 | Author:Michael S. Gazzaniga
BRAIN MECHANISMS OF ATTENTION Just as colleagues were ready, willing, and able to visit Hanover to carry out studies on our patients, we, scientists and patients, were ready to travel ...
( Category:
Behavioral Sciences
December 2,2017 )
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